Quote Originally Posted by blacksambo View Post
The answer is technically yes, they did come with standard shift. Five were built at the factory that way to be used in the Dakar Rally Raid. If you look at the VX parts manual you will see provisions shown for manual shifters. That's the story.
I have both US and Japan EPCs and there's no manual transmission mentioned there.

I'm pretty sure the transmission was swapped by Isuzu Motorsports after cars left factory. If you look at Dakar's VXs they have totally modified from stock.

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